Principle Lead Engineer with Azure and 10 years min exp@ Malaysia

Innovatz Global; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Innovatz Global is seeking an experienced software engineering leader in Kuala Lumpur to guide cross-team technical direction for core business systems. The role focuses on TypeScript or similar web stack expertise, microservices, and event-driven patterns, with strong emphasis on data modelling, API design, and observability.

Azure experience is a bonus. The candidate will collaborate across engineering, product, and security boundaries, communicating effectively with diverse stakeholders and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including TypeScript or a similar web stack language.
• Experience providing technical direction for critical, business-facing systems across multiple teams.
• Proficient in microservices and event-driven architecture with attention to boundaries, async messaging, idempotency, ordering and dead-letter handling.
• Strong data modelling for RDBMS and NoSQL with performance considerations.
• API design and management including REST and API gateway patterns.
• Observability grounded in OpenTelemetry and familiarity with APM/dashboard tools.
• AuthN/AuthZ, least-privilege IAM, and secrets management; bonus: Azure.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across engineering, product, and architecture/security boundaries.
• Provide technical direction and decision-making across multiple teams.
• Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Build trust through technical credibility and accountability.

Skills

TypeScript

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

Data modelling

API design

Observability

Security basics

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Azure

Job description

• 10+ years of professional software engineer ing experience, including TypeScript or a similar web stack language
• Experience providing technical direction for critical, business-facing systems, across multiple teams
• Microservices and event-driven architecture: service boundaries, async messaging, idempotency, ordering, and dead-letter handling
• RDBMS and NoSQL data modelling, including schema design and query performance
• API design and management, including REST and API gateway patterns
• Observability grounded in OpenTelemetry, plus familiarity with APM/dashboard tooling (Dynatrace, Grafana, or similar)
• AuthN/AuthZ, least-privilege IAM, and secrets management fundamentals Bonus: experience with Azure

Leadership

• Works effectively across engineer ing, product, and architecture/security boundaries
• Good judgement on when to own a problem and when to bring in others to collaborate on it
• Communicates clearly with technical and non-technical audiences alike
• Builds trust through technical credibility, not authority